We have been critical of NATO for years. In short, it is an organization that shouldn’t even exist as it’s primary function now is that of expansion, fear mongering and poking the Russian bear.
We have also been critical of President Trump, but we must give credit to where credit is due.
President Donald Trump said NATO allies had committed to raising their defense spending beyond 2 percent on Thursday morning, following a flurry of public diatribes against key members of the 29-nation bloc.
“NATO is much stronger now than it was two days ago,” Trump told reporters, shortly after he had prompted an unscheduled crisis meeting among the group’s members.
The U.S. president claimed NATO allies had made unprecedented commitments to increase spending on their own defense, before adding he believed he could pull out of the group without Congressional approval.
Trump then said this would now be “unnecessary” after allies had agreed to increase their defense spending.
There is a good and bad side to all of the above.
The bad news is, NATO lives another day and will trigger Nuclear World War 3 soon enough. Just as described in our Forecast Here
The good news is, the US saves some cash and most importantly, Poland will stop running around and screaming that Russia is about to invade them. At the very least let’s hope that’s the case.
